Finally had a day off and Joe Meaders got 220v wired up in his garage, so he got to welding
Cracks welded up
Ground flush
Framerail inserts all welded up to the Rigidco Bumper brackets, which bolt to the 4 stock mounts and the 4 frame rail holes, which is also bolted to the bumper subframe mounts
We got lucky welding those up. I already had them in the frame rails for 2 months bare metal on the weld surface. This left a perfect little outline on the back of the rigidco mounting plate, so tack and test fit went pretty smoothly with only 3 testfits and adjustments on the pass side, and only one on the driver side
Here they are inserted
And all the way in
Everything lined up really well and bolted back together easily. It's probably overkill, but I feel a lot better with the cracks welded up. Joe did a great job with the welds. He didn't has a lot of experience welding to the thin gauge of the unibody, but once dialed in, the welds turned out great.
I didn't take pictures of the repair of the unirails-to-rear xmember repaid while te tank was out, but I'll get some tomorrow.
Cracks welded up
Ground flush
Framerail inserts all welded up to the Rigidco Bumper brackets, which bolt to the 4 stock mounts and the 4 frame rail holes, which is also bolted to the bumper subframe mounts
We got lucky welding those up. I already had them in the frame rails for 2 months bare metal on the weld surface. This left a perfect little outline on the back of the rigidco mounting plate, so tack and test fit went pretty smoothly with only 3 testfits and adjustments on the pass side, and only one on the driver side
Here they are inserted
And all the way in
Everything lined up really well and bolted back together easily. It's probably overkill, but I feel a lot better with the cracks welded up. Joe did a great job with the welds. He didn't has a lot of experience welding to the thin gauge of the unibody, but once dialed in, the welds turned out great.
I didn't take pictures of the repair of the unirails-to-rear xmember repaid while te tank was out, but I'll get some tomorrow.